The Family - A witness for Christ

I was drawn by the sermon on Sun. I guess I came to the realisation that my family - of 5 kids, is our way of bearing witness to Christ. We are not strong catholics, and we have certainly not contributed much to various ministries. But God had given us gifts, and if we can bring them up well despite the challenges, I think we would have shown what God has done and what we can be grateful.

Indeed the start of the year has not been smooth. We had a spate of flu virus attacks, starting with Claire, Nigel, then me, Dar's mom, Chloe, Nat and the maid. It was certainly no joke, as dar herself said that she cant fall sick. Made me realise though when I stood in the family...when dar's mom falls, the main support strutcture falls, in terms of running the admin household chores. But Dar is around to take it up, and she can, in spite of running the kids schedule. Me? I can transport some of them for classes, but suck in monitoring their school work or much less household chores.

Claire also started on a bad footing - she has been terrorised by her form teacher, who also happens to be her Prefect mistress, when she is in the prefects Exco. So much so that for the first time, she has cried and said she doesnt want to go to school. We are really concerned. But slowly trying to show her she can deal with it. If she really cant, we would definately have to speak to the "T-Rex".

Fortunately, there is a silver lining. We are reading Nat better in his feeding patterns at night. That's why I am up and blogging, after feeding his second feed. But the surprise package must be Chloe. She is now the class monitress...wow. She is really over the moon. The way she gloats at dinner, and like dar says, she is really "high". ha ha. Certainly, hope things stay high for her.